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I would be happy to help find you an assistant. Tell m

I'm not angry with you at all.

I feel like I can be candid with you just as you are with me. I do feel Leon strung me along and may have criticized my actions post hoc, when you spoke with one another about me. I know it is not AT ALL your style to string anyone along: you are direct and sincere and I believe you care about everyone you bother to bring into your very busy life. I know our conversation the other day was just a way for you to communicate your concern about my course of action and I appreciate it. But most people aren't like you. They don't care, they aren't clear and they are not invested.

I just reacted to your email in which you described me as a failed experiment. I came to NY because I trust you and your unique, unfettered perspective, perhaps more in that moment than my own. Just because our Phaidon-related plans didn't turn out to be the right ones doesn't mean this trip hasn't already lead to more progress than I can imagine. You were always right, LA is a wasteland and NY has. in less than 2 months, clarified what it is I should be doing with my life that 1 year in LA could not.

Talk to me about what you expect from me. I trust you. I'm sorry for my tone. I blame my hair color.

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If you are angry with me , im sorry, the tone of this is surprising , not sure next step

I would be happy to help find you an assistant. Tell me the parameters of the job and I will look. As far as the experiment is concerned... I didn't know I was part of one. Am I an unsuspecting

Galatea?Or a pr. in ,r dealings with Leon?Since there was never really a job on the table at Phaidon I can only clutch at straws... I uprooted from LA at your behest and was strung along on somewhat of a fool's errand and now that i have taken up the real and tangible opportunities that are being presented to me (the film, the column and the book) you say our experiment has failed? I am not suggesting you were aware of or bear any responsibility for just the kind of goose chase this Phaidon thing was but if our experiment was one of seriousness and focus I feel there has been 'serious' progress.

Age? Can she be older than your girls usually are? Education? Preference of nationality? Does she need to be beautiful? How would she be compensated? Let me scour my books to see who might be have a lead.

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I actually have a girl in mind. She is bright, has amazing taste, well travelled, Austrian. She speaks German and English, French like most Europeans where she can get by, sounds French but isn't fluent. She is about to finish her BA in Vienna. Very mature, no silly ideas, but not a stick in the mud. She is attractive but more of the voluptuous variety. Not a supermodel. Absolutely qualified but also 23. I have been helping her look for jobs and will ask if that is something that might interest her.

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I need an asssitant well poised educated traveld organized, well spoken, she will cooridante world leaders dinners, private meetings transpot security

planes, etc, take notes. follow up, buy flowers, shop like crazy

she needs taste. so unlikely too young. salary of 125 . french speaking helpfitl. attractive, presentable. no romance

Think about former actresses

Actors don't like or know how to work. ;)

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